Board of Directors and Staff

The Friends of the National Arboretum is governed by an active, enthusiastic and energetic Board of Directors, involved in every aspect of our organization from the ground up, our day-to-day operations to strategic plans and long-term goals.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 
Chair - Linda Dooley - Bryce Harlow Foundation
First Vice President - James Derderian, Stanton Park Group
Second Vice President - Barbara Shea, Casey Tree Farm
Secretary - Paul Sweet, NPS
Assistant Secretary - Eleanor Kerr, Siemens
Treasurer - Deborah E. Bowles, Abravanel & Bowles Wealth Management Group, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Assistant Treasurer - J. Denis O'Toole 
 
Robert Bartlett Jr. - The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co.
Suzanne Bissell - Fundraising Consultant
Nancy Bryson - Holland and Hart LLP
Katherine Stark Bull - Retired
Robert Cashdollar - U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Retired
Carolyn Cheney - Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
Lynne Church - Consultant & Landscape Designer
Jeanne Connelly - Consultant
Tene Dolphin - US Department of Commerce  
Marsha A. Echols - Howard University School of Law 
Charles Findlay - Retired, Department of Justice
Linda Findlay - Consultant
Charles Flickner - Consultant
Sherrill M. Houghton, Landscape Designer
James Hughes - National Bonsai Foundation
Eleanor Kerr - Seimens Corporation
Jack Krumholtz - The Glover Park Group
Suzanne D. Kuser, Consultant
Rick Lewandowski
Terry Lewis - Civic Volunteer
Bill Matuszeski - Center for Watershed Protection
Scot Medbury - Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Paul Meyer - Morris Arboretum
Christina Mulvihill - Sony Corporation
Mary Eugenia Myer - The Washington Revels & Landscape Planner
Elizabeth Rea - Founding President of FONA & Former President National Herb Society of America
J. Landon Reeve - Chapel Valley
Robert I. Schramm - Schramm, Williams & Associates
Barbara Shea - President, Casey Tree Farm
Jerry Slominski - International Dairy Foods Association
Jay Vroom - CropLife America
Tuckie Westfall - Civic Volunteer
Alexandra Wilson - Cox Enterprises, Inc., Retired
 
 


HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS 
 
Former Senator Robert Bennett
Representative Earl Blumenauer
Former Senator Christopher S. Bond
Representative Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
Nancy H. Ireland
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Representative Mike Pence
Agnes Westbrook


STAFF
 
Kathy Horan, Executive Director
Dana Faulkner, Chief Executive Officer
Hannah Urrey, Development Associate
Charla Wilson, Development and Communication Manager, Washington Youth Garden
Nadia Mercer, Garden Coordinator, Washington Youth Garden
Anna Benfield, Education Coordinator, Washington Youth Garden